ietf-nntp Proposed wildmat text

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> No, you are trying to define meanings for all sorts of stupid things like
> [a-------b] which are quite useless, but will complicate implementation
> tremendously.

Not really.  It just describes how the simplest implementation ends up
doing things.  Trying to do anything else with such wildmats would end up
complicating the implementation (trying to reject them as invalid
*definitely* complicates the implementation).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>